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[Fraidycat]

Neil Ferguson said the effect appeared to be "'real' and the R number could now be slightly below one"

"I'm positive that by late September, October time, we will be looking back at most of the pandemic,' he said.

'We'll still have Covid with us, we'll still have people dying from Covid, but we will put the bulk of the pandemic behind us.'

"Experts have suggested that high numbers of young people catching the disease during the Euros could have helped to squash the latest peak, as they now have some immunity and otherwise may not have been vaccinated."
Covid is over. Looks like we have beaten it here in the UK

[Fraidycat]

Client Co was talking about a return to the office to Permies in September today.

The poor chaps were looking a bit depressed they had hoped WFH would be the norm forever, maybe having to do a couple of days a week in the office.

But client co is giving them just 1 day a week WFH and an additional ad hoc day every now and then.

Contractors will remain fully remote, we can decide which days we want to be in the office, thanks to the private sector IR35 reforms passed in April